This guide has been prepared to assist Member States of Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC) in establishing and operating a national oceanographic data centre (NODC). Since
the early 1960s, approximately 55 ...

This Document is the second revision of the IOC Manuals and Guides No.5. The first
edition was published in 1975 and the first revision in 1997. This document deals
mainly with oceanographic data management but, as data ...

This Guide describes the operational procedures for the BATHY/TESAC Operational
Programme, which includes the collection and exchange of operational BATHY, TESAC and, since 1
November 1987, TRACKOB data. The instructions ...

In order to assist with this task, the Management Committee had further requested IODE to carry out an assessment of data and data product requirements of existing oceanography and marine meteorology programmes/projects, ...

In the late 1960s IODE started the system of the National Oceanographic Programmes (NOPs)
and Cruise Summary Reports (CSRs, formerly ROSCOPs) as a way to share information on
planned research cruises as well as to report ...

This manual describes the protocol approved by the international Scientific Steering Committee for the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) for the most of the 20 JGOFS Core Measurements. However, the methods for the ...